Mount Pleasant Township is one of the fourteen townships

Civil township

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 of Jefferson County

Jefferson County, Ohio

Jefferson County is a county located in the state of Ohio. As of 2010, the population was 69,709. Its county seat is Steubenville and is named for Thomas Jefferson, who was at the time Vice President....

, Ohio

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, United States

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. The 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

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 found 2,588 people in the township, 1,503 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.

Geography

Located in the southwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:

• Smithfield Township
  Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, Ohio
  Smithfield Township is one of the fourteen townships of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 3,578 people in the township, 1,804 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - north
• Warren Township
  Warren Township, Jefferson County, Ohio
  Warren Township is one of the fourteen townships of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 4,499 people in the township, 2,044 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - east
• Pease Township, Belmont County
  Pease Township, Belmont County, Ohio
  Pease Township is one of the sixteen townships of Belmont County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 14,961 people in the township, 4,367 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - southeast
• Colerain Township, Belmont County
  Colerain Township, Belmont County, Ohio
  Colerain Township is one of the sixteen townships of Belmont County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 4,438 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - south
• Wheeling Township, Belmont County
  Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio
  Wheeling Township is one of the sixteen townships of Belmont County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,477 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - southwest corner
• Short Creek Township, Harrison County
  Short Creek Township, Harrison County, Ohio
  Short Creek Township is one of the fifteen townships of Harrison County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,012 people in the township, 614 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - west

Two villages are located in Mount Pleasant Township: Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant, Ohio

Mount Pleasant is a village in Jefferson County, Ohio, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 535. It is part of the Weirton–Steubenville, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

 in the center, and part of Dillonvale

Dillonvale, Ohio

Dillonvale is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Ohio:*Dillonvale, Hamilton County, Ohio*Dillonvale, Jefferson County, Ohio...

in the northeast.

Government

The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.